medical terminology
Which of the following disorders is an inflammation?
Enteritis
Which of the following is a "sign"?
Fever
Which is spelled correctly?
Gastrotomy
Most medical terms are from which two languages?
Greek, Latin
Which of the following means below or under?
Hypo-
What is the singular of larynges?
Larynx
If a patient is being treated for hypothermia, he/she has abnormally
Low body temperature.
Which of the following is misspelled?
Opthalmology
You are checking a report for errors and find that one of the procedures listed is misspelled. Which one is it?
Ostetomy
What is the singular of prognoses?
Prognosis
What is the singular of septa?
Septum
A patient who has a prenatal visit sees her practitioner
before the birth of her child.
Which of the following is an acronym?
TURP (transurethral resection of the prostate)
prognosis
The forecast of the probable outcome or course of a disease; the patient's chance of 'recovery.
diagnosis
The nature of a disease; the identification of an illness.
What is the singular of thrombi?
Thrombus
Patients with food caught in their interdental spaces have pieces of food
between their teeth.
One of your professors is using a term that sounds like it starts with a "z," but you have read every Z term in your dictionary, and it's not there. You should try looking under the letter
X.
In the term "periosteum," you know that the suffix refers to
a structure.
A dermatosis would be a(n)
abnormal condition of the skin.
. Examining the term epidermis, you would expect that the word part epi- refers to a _________ structure the dermis.
above
The basketball player was back for yet another visual examination of his knee joint. He was there for an
arthroscopy.
Which of the following suffixes indicates a therapeutic intervention?
-tripsy
The prefix anti-means
against
The singular of bacteria is
bacterium
A patient reports, "I can't sleep, my throat is sore, my muscles ache, and my fever is 102.4 F." Which is considered a sign?
102.4 F fever
sequela
A pathological condition resulting from a prior disease, injury, or attack.
acronym
A pronounceable word formed from the initial letters of each word or selected words in a phrase
Which of the following is an eponym?
Achilles tendon
eponym
An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person. Most of the eponyms in medicine are after physicians and rarely to other healthcare providers like nurses.
What is the plural of digitus?
Digiti
A patient with a heart disorder would most likely be treated by a(n)
cardiologist
The branch of medicine that deals with the study of the heart is
cardiology
An enlargement of the heart is
cardiomegaly.
The patient reports that her breathing difficulties of the last few years have been getting progressively worse. After testing, her disease is diagnosed as one that she will most likely have for the next several years. Her disease is considered to be
chronic.
The o in the term thermometer is a
combining vowel
A patient is treated for kidney stones with a machine called a lithotripter. Its function is to ________ stones.
crush
. The plural of diagnosis is
diagnoses.
A child has otorrhea. Knowing that -rrhea means a discharge, you know that he has a
discharge from his ear.
A patient with an enteropathy has a(n)________ of the intestines.
disease
A notation is made about an instrument to be ordered for the hospital. It makes a record of the electrical activity of the heart. The instrument is called an
electrocardiograph.
"Intra-" has a similar meaning to
endo-
A patient scheduled for a procedure to visualize the interior of a body cavity is having a(n)
endoscopy.
A new opening of the small intestines is a(n)
enterostomy
Alzheimer's disease is an example of a(n)
eponym
One of the terms used to describe a patient's healthy condition starts with a "u" sound. You can't find it in the U listings, so you check under which spelling?
eu
A patient scheduled for a gastrectomy was having a(n)_______ of his stomach.
excision
The word component that refers to the stomach is
gastr/o.
An incision into the stomach is called a
gastrotomy
The opposite of "hyper-" is
hypo-
In the term hypodermic, the prefix is
hypo.
An antibacterial agent
is against bacteria.
In the term neonatology, the suffix is
logy
the study of a new born baby is
neonatology
Neurology is a discipline that would most likely treat patients with disorders of the
nerves
A patient with rhinitis has an inflammation of his
nose
The study and treatment of the eye are
ophthalmology
A word root for "bone" is
oste.
An instrument used to cut bone is an
osteotome
. A surgical repair of the external ear may be termed
otoplasty.
The professor dictated the terms that would be included on the next examination, but you didn't recognize the one that started with a "t" sound. Later when reviewing your notes, you realize that it could have started with a(n) a
p.
The study of disease is
pathology.
You are sure that you heard an "f" sound at the beginning of the term meaning a bone of the fingers or toes. After exhausting your possibilities in the F section of the dictionary, you realize that you could also try which letter combination?
ph.
The plural of phalanx is
phalanges.
The plural of pleura is
pleurae.
You have just heard a word that begins with an "n" sound, but you cannot find it inthe dictionary under the letter "N." What other letter combinations could youtry?
pn
Epi-, endo-, and pre- are examples of
prefixes.
The plural of psychotherapy is
psychotherapies
As part of the operative procedure, the surgeon performs an enteroplasty. You know that she has _____ part of the intestines.
repaired
If you are told that "cutane/o" is a combining form for the skin, then percutaneous would refer to a term that describes something that is______ the skin.
through
The plural of vertebra is
vertebrae
An esophagogastroduodenoscopy is a procedure to organs.
view
A patient has a surgical procedure described as an arthrotomy. You know that the joint
was incised
An intraaortic balloon pump is placed _____ the aorta.
within
